You’ll find desktop-quality tools like radial, grid, and mirror repeat polygon shape creation shape merging and extraction and the ability to edit graphics down to the point, radius, or angle level. It has over 18,000 fonts, over 20 color pallets, and guided tutorials to help you. I’ve been playing around with the app for a week or two, and while I’m definitely not a designer, it seems like a capable tool for those who are.

Instead of pixels, your shapes, gradients, and strokes are calculations, which is less memory-intensive. Illustrator is a vector-based for graphic designers to create icons, logos, posters, and other forms of illustrations.

It’s meant for subscribers of the company’s Creative Cloud, because you can’t use the app without signing up for the US$9.99/mo membership, although you do get a free trial for one month. Illustrator is the third of Adobe’s apps to appear on the iPad, after Lightroom and Photoshop.